NOXIOUS WEEDS.

Lake County Press, Issue 2789, 12 June 1919, Page 5

NOXIOUS WEEDS.

Diffloulty of Administering Aet. Givi"" ""idence before the Parliamentary 1 d'Mries Committee at Wellington, Dr C. J. Reakes stated that it was extremely difficult to administer tlio Noxious Weeds Act and he did not know whether it would, as framed at present, over be successfully administered. Asked if he had any proposals regarding legislation, Dr Reakes said that he proposed to get the co-operation of local bodies of various centres. Members of local bodies were elected by the people of the districts most aflected by the existence of noxious weeds. The chairman stated that there were 300,000 acres affected by blackberry in the Taranaki province alone. Dr Reakes said that it was largely a question of labour. The war had accentuated that He was now engaged in drafting a Bill dealing with impure seed and a large staff in the Department was engaged regularly in testing samples of seed.